Re: tlug: Silly Questions.

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

Shawn Gray (shawn@example.com) wrote:

> I am trying to raise people's awareness that there are more file formats out there than just *.doc. So I try to convince them to shoot me *.txt or at the very least *.rtf. If they can't, I whine, complain, and then eventually accept *.doc. I'll break down and use it, but not before making sure they know that it is not the only format people use.

I see what you mean about column widths  :-)

Star Office does a really nice job of importing Office 97 files, so you
should be able to run that on Linux and handle the .doc files.  Then
send them back a file that isn't in .doc format and let *them*
convert it :-)

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